More Details on the Barbie Movie Corvette!

In these troubled times, with actual, real problems in the world to get outraged about, take a moment to consider this not-so-real scandal: the Barbie Corvette in the coming Warner Bros. movie isn’t full-size! When you stop to consider the amount of time and energy expended by web commenters about perceived inaccuracies in Ford v Ferrari and, likely, in the coming Enzo Ferrari and F1 movies, this should at least register on the scale of righteous indignation somewhere. Shouldn’t it?

The first Barbie Corvette debuted in 1968, though some sources say 1970 and one claims it was 1976. As far as I could tell after spending way too much time researching it, there were numerous Barbie Corvettes over the years, from C1 to C4, at least. Argue about that one on the internet. The car that will be in the movie is based around a 1958 Convertible.

Barbie has placed her perfect plastic keister in numerous cars over her endlessly youthful lifetime. The first car seems to have been three years after her creation in 1959. That was when she got a 1962 Austin Healey 3000 MkII, her first car. It was followed by a 1962 Mercedes 190SL, 1978 Ferrari 328 GTS, 1991 Porsche 911 Cabrio, and Barbie campers too numerous to list here. There was even a “2004 Cali Girl Chevrolet SSR” pickup truck and a 2004 Ferrari F1 car. According to the exhaustive web source barbielistholland.wordpress.com there was even a “Big ATC” trike-looking thing and a very wide variety of dune buggies. There were many, many vehicles in the Barbie World.

For our purposes, the one we care about is the Corvette. Or, as it’s sometimes been called over the Barbie years, the “Dream Corvette.” In the coming movie it’s a ‘58 Convertible. The shocker in the official trailer for the movie is that it appears to be much smaller than a real Corvette (Outrage! Boycott! Squirrel!).